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ISRAELI AMBASSADOR TO THE US MICHAEL OREN: HAMAS HAS A STRATEGY, USE THE GULLIBLE MEDIA TO DELEGITIMIZE THE JEWISH STATE……..

 

How true.

This is why the media is loathed by those of us who follow the news on a regular basis. We have seen their malfeasance go unchecked, using their position as watchdogs not to accurately report the news, but to trumpet the cause they favor. They simply can’t be trusted.

Falling for Hamas’s media manipulation

What makes better headlines? Is it numbing figures such as the 8,000 Palestinian rockets fired at Israel since it unilaterally withdrew from Gaza in 2005, and the 42.5 percent of Israeli children living near the Gaza border who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder? Or is it high-resolution images of bombed-out buildings in Gaza and emotional stories of bereaved Palestinians? The last, obviously, as demonstrated by much of the media coverage of Israel’s recent operation against Hamas. But that answer raises a more fundamental question: Which stories best serve the terrorists’ interest?

Hamas has a military strategy to paralyze southern Israel with short- and middle-range rockets while launching Iranian-made missiles at Tel Aviv. With our precision air force, top-notch intelligence and committed citizens army, we can defend ourselves against these dangers. We have invested billions of dollars in bomb shelters and early-warning systems and, together with generous U.S. aid, have developed history’s most advanced, multi-layered anti-missile batteries. For all of its bluster, Hamas does not threaten Israel’s existence.

But Hamas also has a media strategy. Its purpose is to portray Israel’s unparalleled efforts to minimize civilian casualties in Gaza as indiscriminate firing at women and children, to pervert Israel’s rightful acts of self-defense into war crimes. Its goals are to isolate Israel internationally, to tie its hands from striking back at those trying to kill our citizens and to delegitimize the Jewish State. Hamas knows that it cannot destroy us militarily but believes that it might do so through the media.

One reason is the enlarged images of destruction and civilian casualties in Gaza that dominated the front pages of U.S. publications. During this operation, The Post published multiple front-page photographs of Palestinian suffering. The New York Times even juxtaposed a photograph of the funeral of Hamas commander Ahmed Jabari, who was responsible for the slaughter of dozens of innocent Israelis, with that of a pregnant Israeli mother murdered by Hamas. Other photos, supplied by the terrorists and picked up by the press, identified children killed by Syrian forces or even by Hamas itself as victims of Israeli strikes.

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2 Responses

  1. Sorry, the media is not simply “gullible”. It is actively and knowingly participating in fabricating and promoting these blood libels. And the sad truth is there is nothing that can be done about it. But we can still laugh at it, if that helps…

    Terror in school

    1. I hear you. No need to say sorry, because in many cases, you’re right. It was just an editorial decision. But yes, the much of he media is in the fix…especially those on the ground who see and know better, but choose to report in the way they do.

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